hi guys, question ? i want to get a new system to run FSX pretty smoothly. i leave in canada and iam looking at this site and like this one : http://www.gamingpc....st.php?pcID=3#2

 

http://www.gamingpc.ca/products.php

 

the beast specifications

 

CPU Intel i7 4930k Six Core overclocked to 4.2 GHz Motherboard Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 Memory G.SKILL Ripjaws X F3 16GB 2X8GB DDR3-1866 Primary Hard Drive Intel 520 Series 240GB 2.5IN SSD (Solid State Drive) Secondary Hard Drive Western Digital Hard Drive 2 Terabytes Black Video Card Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6GB Audio Card Realtek ALC898 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio (On Board) Drives LG WH14NS40 14X Blu Ray Writer - 16x DVD Writer Secondary Drive I don't want one Power Supply EVGA SuperNova 1300W Power Supply Case Corsair Obsidian 800D Cooling Custom Professional grade Water Cooling system Operating System Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit English Overclock Overclocked Speed 4.2 GHz Wireless Network Card I don't want one Warranty 1 Year Warranty

i never own a water cooled rig , any advice would be appreciate. since i leave in a remote town i do not have too many possibilities and choice up here. i want also to get 2 monitors , thinking about 27 or even 30 inches... what do you think?

 

henry

That would be a beast of a computer that would last you a long time. You might want to look into getting another 250gb SSD to put fsx onto, and put all of the scenery onto the regular hard drive.

hi guys, question ? i want to get a new system to run FSX pretty smoothly. i leave in canada and iam looking at this site and like this one : http://www.gamingpc....st.php?pcID=3#2

 

http://www.gamingpc.ca/products.php

 

the beast specifications

 

CPU Intel i7 4930k Six Core overclocked to 4.2 GHz Motherboard Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 Memory G.SKILL Ripjaws X F3 16GB 2X8GB DDR3-1866 Primary Hard Drive Intel 520 Series 240GB 2.5IN SSD (Solid State Drive) Secondary Hard Drive Western Digital Hard Drive 2 Terabytes Black Video Card Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan 6GB Audio Card Realtek ALC898 7.1-Channel High Definition Audio (On Board) Drives LG WH14NS40 14X Blu Ray Writer - 16x DVD Writer Secondary Drive I don't want one Power Supply EVGA SuperNova 1300W Power Supply Case Corsair Obsidian 800D Cooling Custom Professional grade Water Cooling system Operating System Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit English Overclock Overclocked Speed 4.2 GHz Wireless Network Card I don't want one Warranty 1 Year Warranty

i never own a water cooled rig , any advice would be appreciate. since i leave in a remote town i do not have too many possibilities and choice up here. i want also to get 2 monitors , thinking about 27 or even 30 inches... what do you think?

 

henry

Hi Henry,

 

This is my system essentially and it runs FSX quite well.  Better yet, it will run XPlane 64 better than 4 core versions might, and maybe P3D will be able to exploit some of its power a little more though that's still up for grabs.  I'm using an SB-E hexacore CPU at 4.4Ghz.  Since IB-E is ~5% faster per clock over SB-E, and since IB-E likely will not overclock as well, our machines will be quite similar in total performance w/ the only practical difference being IB-E supports PCIe 3.0 natively, though this has been shown to be non sequetor as far as FSX is concerned.  Make sure you can live w/ the infrequent but real possibility of water leaks.  I wasn't willing subject these expensive parts to this possibility so opted for the Noctua D-14 air cooler which performs essentially on a par w/ closed loop water coolers w/ no risk of a leak.  Unless you are contemplating picking up another 2-3 Titans then that 1300W PSU that is insane overkill.   If you're thinking no more Titans, then 850W w/ a robust 12v single rail is still way overkill and would still give you room to add one more Titan.   Also, you'll probably want FSX on its own SSD, or alternatively, do what I did which is to put OS & FSX on a single large SSD--makes for easy backups, all self-contained on one drive, and I have spectacular I/O performance.  You might want to upgrade your memory as well to 2400Mhz CAS 9 or 10 is fine.

For Fsx only i should go for Haswell.

I have i similar system as second gaming PC.

Only diff is faster mems 2666 cl10, it performs like my Old 3770k clock for clock but

It OC only to 4.7ghz on watercooling agianst the 3770k 5.ghz.

At the same clock 4.7 its allmost a 20% differens to the 4770k in the subjective smoothness i se no differens can be placebo , but the frames its 20% that you see.

And if you run it @ 4.2 its 10% more diff.

Buying a 2011 system IB -E or SB -E for fsx is waste of money , My personal opinion.

 

 

3770k 5.ghz.

 

Is that 3770K de lidded??

Yes

Is that 3770K de lidded??

henry,

 

Any reason you chose the 4930K over the 4770K? You can save quite a bit by going for the 780 over the Titan. And consider 8Gb RAM instead of 16Gb unless your running other memory intensive software.

 

1300w PSU seems excessive. A 650-750 would be more than enough.

 

Other than that it's a great system but you should be able to overclock at 4.4 rather than 4.2.

 

if you're thinking of going for a 30"+ display the 2560 resolution won't help your frame rates. Consider a 32" TV with 1920x1080 instead. I bought a Sony Bravia 32" LED to replace my Dell 24" 1920x1200 and it's brilliant.